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NITED STATES PATENT OFFIC ROSCOE TITOOMB, OF NORTH YARMOUTH, MAINE.

SAND-DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

EPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,151, dated October28, 1884.

Application filed May 15, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RoscoE TITCOMB, of NorthYarmouth, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Sand- Distributing Machines; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, whichform a 1 part of this specification.

Figure 1 is aside elevation. plan. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan.

sectional view.

Same letters show like parts.

My invention is designed to distribute and scatter sand or any suchsubstance upon roads and walks rendered slipperyand dangerous byaccumulations of ice, and for other similar purposes. It is in form acart or carriage borne on two wheels, 01. These are on their peripheriesprovided with knobs b, to sink into the ice and prevent sliding thereon,as well as to secure the revolution of the wheels, upon which theoperations of the machine in certain particulars depend. One of thewheels a is fixed on the axle-tree and the other is free or loosethereon. These are so arranged in order that the feeding device 0 maynot rotate while the carriage is being turned. If the Fig. 2 isatop Fig.4 is a v feeding device should be allowed to revolve while the carriagewas being turned, an unnecessary amount of sand or earth would bedeposited, and for that purpose the feeding or dropping down of the sameis temporarily suspended While turning.

d is the cart-body.

e is the shafts or tongue.

The carriage can be drawn by hand or animal power. v

The feeding device 0 is the axle-tree of the cart, extending across thebody andthrough that part that contains the sand or other substance tobe distributed. It is rotated by the fixed wheel on the journal thereof.This feeding device 0 has the fingers f so arranged as to gradually anduniformly work the contents of the body d down through the slot 9 in theI bottom thereof. Thebody d is a kind of hopper, tapering at the bottom,so thatas the sand or other substance works downwardly it is brought tothe slot,to be discharged therefrom.

h is a sliding gage. 7 It has the slots j and handle 2'. In the slots jare set-screws It. By these devices the slot or opening in the bottom ofthe body (1 can be widened or narrowed, and thus the quantity ofdischarge regulatedthat is, the gage h can be moved backward or forward,so as to open or close the slot 9.

Z is a rest or guard. This is to aid in getting the cart ofi fromsidewalks and over curbstones, 8E0.

the body d from working out around the axletree, where it passes throughthe wall of the body d.

n is a gage to be adjusted,i11 connection with the gage h ,to regulatethe issue of the contents of the body 03 through the slot g.

As the cart is moved along, the sand or other substance placed withinthe body 01 is caused by the rotation of the feeder c,with its fingersf, to pass evenly and uniformly through the slot 9, and thus besprinkled and scattered over ice on sidewalks, 850. This is now commonlydone in cities by hand from shovels held by the persons doing the work,and the sand is carried from point to point in carts, from which it istaken by the shovels.

It is plain that my improved device greatly improves the uniformity ofthe sand thus used, and requires less time in the work.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-

The combination, with the body d, of the wheels (1, one loose and onefixed on the axletree, the revolving feeder c,with its fingers f,

washers m, all as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the forgoing -as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

ROSOOE TITCOMB.

Witnesses:

G. O. PETERS, WARREN ROBINSON.

the slot '9, the gages h and n, the guard l, and

m are washers to prevent the contents of

